Petr Vránek

photo: archiv P. Vránka / současné foto J. Zvoníček
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Petr Vránek was born on 5 August, 1953. He spent his childhood in Teplice. He refused to join the Pioneer movement and during occupation in 1968 wrote slogans on walls such as: „Wake up, Lenin, Brežněv got mad”, following which he was expelled from school. He apprenticed a glass maker, but worked as a miner for a large part of his life. He painted and organised illegal flat exhibitions. Was interrogated many times by the secret police. Regularly participated in the meeting of a literary club called the Tomb of Olga Havlová. Often he visited also Hrádeček. He is a tramp and a climber.